Example sentences of "been good for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The year has been good for programme sales , particularly overseas where sales increased more than a half to £18.8m . |
| 2 | 15 March 1986 : A Ford takeover of Austin Rover would have been good for Britain , according to a top Ford executive . |
| 3 | T'would have done you no harm , and been good for the |
| 4 | I 'm not saying I 'd have been good for him or him for me , but it did provide a link in a chain that was to tie me to glory in the Open . |
| 5 | Decide now what you really wanted to do , and what , with hindsight , would have been good for you to do or have . |
| 6 | In the yard at the back , a slow burning bon fire added to the pong which could not have been good for those living nearby . |
| 7 | The steady erosion from astronomical to merely high has at least been good for morale : a further cut after the holidays might just jolly people into voting Tory if there were to be an autumn election . |
| 8 | ‘ The positive image has been good for business , ’ Norton says . |
| 9 | It has been good for both business and charity : since its launch in late 1988 , more than 300,000 cardholders have been recruited , and an estimated £2 million has been donated to the Imperial Cancer Research Fund , the British Heart Foundation and Mencap . |
| 10 | Sam could sing and play the concertina and violin , and he must have been good for the BBC to come all the way to Baldersdale to find him . |
| 11 | But , generally , Ollie seemed to have been good for him and brought his character out a lot . |
| 12 | But Major , Patten , Douglas Hurd , Kenneth Clarke , and even Michael Heseltine , were left with no choice but to argue that Thatcherism had been good for Britain . |
| 13 | However , sometimes a dessert is called for — as at a dinner party — or just wanted — because you 've been good for so long ! |
| 14 | Whenever Keith has been good for a day Mr Smith should watch a programme on the television with him . |
| 15 | Keith says Shaunagh has been good for him . |
| 16 | The return of the Emperor to France and the subsequent declaration of war had been good for Harper 's trade ; a good hunter stolen from a Protestant plantation in Ireland would fetch a prime price in England where so many officers equipped themselves for the campaign . |
| 17 | And some of the authoritarian oligarchies had been good for economic growth — as in Brazil in the 1970s , or Singapore under Lee Kuan Yew — while others , like the Greek colonels , had not . |
| 18 | So I doubt if our hero would have been good for many heroics after swigging that . |
| 19 | It might have been good for the dockies , but it were n't no good for the lighterman . |
| 20 | It had , he thought ruefully , been good for his self-conceit to find that her devotion did n't , after all , extend to leaving London where , surprisingly , she had been discovered to have a life of her own , to join him in the fens . |
| 21 | On balance , I believe that Britain 's membership of the EEC has been of some benefit in terms of the home market which she has gained and will continue to gain as and when her partners honour their commitments to complete the Single Market ; however , as should be clear from the figures quoted in Chapter 5 , the assertion that EEC membership has been good for Britain is open to question . |
| 22 | What is beyond question is that British membership has been good for the EEC ; not only do British taxpayers and consumers bear the cost of the CAP , the CFP , the Common External Tariff and the Cohesion budget , but Britain constitutes an artificial captive market for the exporters of the Eleven . |
| 23 | Mind you , it 's been good for business , so I suppose I should n't complain . ’ |
| 24 | Furthermore , it has been good for morale to have an ongoing project , the success of which has not been tied to the everyday ups and downs in the hurly-burly of school life . |
| 25 | It 's been good for me to sweat and toil — like a long therapy session ; honest manual work puts a lot of things in perspective . |
| 26 | That would have been good for Britain , for employment , for British Airways , for British Aerospace and for Rolls-Royce . |
| 27 | He said : ’ I 'm aware that what we 're saying may be used but we do believe it is the most energising thing that has happened in my 21 years as a GP It has been good for care , public health and management . ’ |
| 28 | It would n't have been good for staff morale . |
| 29 | Erm and if it 's not it 's er I 'm not going to deny the fact that some people say you know this has been good for me for the last eighteen months erm I 'm er I 'm used to being self employed I 'm going to stay that way but I 'm looking at other avenues . |
| 30 | Life should have been good for Pamela Wray . |